Abstract: The present teaching provides a water repellant and oil repellant film composition comprising a siloxane compound represented by formula (1) or a cured product of the siloxane compound. (In formula (1), each R1 denotes at least one atom or group that is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, organic groups having 2 to 10 carbon atoms and a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond that is able to be hydrosilylated, and alkyl groups having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, each R2 denotes at least one atom or group that is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, organic groups having 2 to 10 carbon atoms and a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond that is able to be hydrosilylated, and alkyl groups having 1 to 10 carbon atoms (the R2 groups in a single molecule may be the same as, or different from, each other).

Abstract: An antitumor peptide provided according to the present invention includes (1) an S1PR-TM related sequence; and (2) an amino acid sequence functioning as a cell penetrating peptide; wherein the total number of amino acid residues is 100 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a curable composition for a polymer electrolyte, including: a component (A): a radical polymerizable compound having a (meth)acryloyl group, a component (B): a compound having, in one molecule, an epoxy group and a skeleton of at least one selected from the group consisting of polybutadiene, polyisoprene, hydrogenated polybutadiene, and hydrogenated polyisoprene, and a component (C): a radical polymerization initiator, in which a content of each of the components (A) to (C) based on the entire composition is as follows, the component (A): from 30 to 98.9% by mass the component (B): from 1 to 40% by mass, and the component (C): from 0.1 to 15% by mass.

Abstract: Apparatus for producing alkali hydroxide and method for operating apparatus for producing alkali hydroxide are provided. A cooling chamber through which a coolant can pass is constructed by placing a separation wall in a cathode chamber on a side opposite to an ion-exchange membrane, and a flow rate adjuster, such as manual valves, which can adjust the supply flow rate of the coolant is placed in each unit cell. The electrolytic temperature of each unit cell is regulated at an optimum operating temperature depending on the current density by adjusting the flow rate of the coolant without individually adjusting the flow rate of salt water supplied to the unit cell or the concentration of the salt water.

Abstract: The present invention provides a secondary battery electrode binder that exhibits superior binding capacity as compared to conventional binders and that also makes it possible to reduce electrode slurry viscosity, even when there is a high concentration of active material in an electrode mixture layer composition. The present invention also provides a secondary battery electrode mixture layer composition, a secondary battery electrode, and a secondary battery that are obtained using the binder. The present invention relates to a secondary battery electrode binder that contains a carboxyl-group-containing polymer or a salt of a carboxyl-group-containing polymer. The carboxyl-group-containing polymer or salt of a carboxyl-group-containing polymer includes structural units that are derived from monomers that are represented by general formula (1) and structural units that are derived from ethylenic unsaturated carboxylic acid monomers that are different from general formula (1).

Abstract: A lithium-sulfur secondary battery electrode binder in which coating properties of an electrode mixture layer composition (electrode slurry) are good, even in a state where the solids concentration of the electrode slurry is high, and which allows increasing the productivity of a secondary battery electrode through an increase in a drying efficiency of the electrode slurry, and increasing significantly the settling stability of the electrode slurry. A binder for a lithium-sulfur secondary battery electrode includes a carboxyl-group-containing polymer or a salt thereof. The carboxyl-group-containing polymer includes a structural unit derived from an ethylenic unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer (A) and a structural unit derived from an ethylenic unsaturated monomer (B) (excluding monomers classified as (A)), and the ethylenically unsaturated monomer (B) has a solubility of 10 g or less in 100 g of water at 20° C.

Abstract: A secondary battery electrode binder exhibits superior binding capacity as compared to conventional binders and makes it possible to reduce slurry viscosity, even when the solid concentration of an electrode slurry is high. A secondary battery electrode binder contains a block polymer having a polymer block (A) and a polymer block (B), wherein: the polymer block (A) includes a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; the content of a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer in the polymer block (B) is less than 30 mass % (and is different from that in the polymer block (A)) with respect to all the structural units of the polymer block (B); the ratio of the polymer block (A) in the block polymer is 10-90 mass %; and the block polymer does not contain a structural unit derived from a crosslinkable monomer.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a technology for efficiently introducing a desired foreign substance from the outside of eukaryotic cells into at least the cytoplasm (and the nucleolus) of the cells is provided. A method disclosed here includes a step of preparing a construct for introducing a foreign substance including a carrier peptide fragment composed of any of amino acid sequences: KKRTLRKKKRKKR (SEQ ID NO: 1), KKRTLRKRRRKKR (SEQ ID NO: 2), KKRTLRKRKRKKR (SEQ ID NO: 3) and KKRTLRKKRRKKR (SEQ ID NO: 4), and a foreign substance that is bound to an N-terminal side and/or C-terminal side of the carrier peptide fragment, a step of supplying the construct for introducing a foreign substance to a sample containing desired eukaryotic cells, and a step of incubating the sample to which the construct for introducing a foreign substance is supplied and introducing the construct into eukaryotic cells in the sample.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to stably and efficiently provide an oxidized cellulose having excellent fibrillatability. The above object can be achieved by a method of producing an oxidized cellulose, which contains an oxide of a cellulose raw material by a hypochlorous acid or a salt thereof, is substantially free of N-oxyl compounds, and has a degree of polymerization of 600 or less, the method including a step of obtaining an oxidized cellulose by oxidizing a cellulose raw material using a hypochlorous acid or a salt thereof, wherein viscosity of a slurry of the cellulose raw material having the same concentration as when the oxidation is performed is in a range of 1,000 Pa·s or less at 30° C. or 40° C.

Abstract: Provided is an oxidized cellulose, a 13C solid-state NMR spectrum of the oxidized cellulose including a number of peaks in a range of from 165 ppm to 185 ppm, which can be produced by oxidizing a cellulose raw material with a hypochlorous acid or salt thereof having an available chlorine concentration of from 6% by mass to 14% by mass, while adjusting the pH in a range of from 5.0 to 14.0.

Abstract: A method of producing a resin modifier, the method comprising a process of polymerizing an ethylene unsaturated monomer in the presence of a cellulose nanofiber, the cellulose nanofiber being reacted with an amine or a quaternary ammonium salt compound.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an efficient production method of a nanocellulose-containing composition. The object can be achieved by a production method of a composition containing nanocellulose, including: a step of stirring a mixture containing oxidized cellulose and a component constituting the composition other than the nanocellulose to fibrillate the oxidized cellulose into the nanocellulose, wherein the oxidized cellulose includes an oxide of a cellulose raw material by a hypochlorous acid or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A water-based binder for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A binder for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode, includes a crosslinked polymer having a carboxyl group or a salt thereof, and the crosslinked polymer includes a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; and a structural unit derived from a macromonomer including at least one compositional monomer selected from compounds represented by following formula (1): [C1] H2C?CR1—X??formula (1) wherein in formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen or a methyl group; X represents C(?O)OR2 or CN; and R2 represents a straight chain or branched C1-C8 alkyl group or a C3-C8 alkyl group having an alicyclic structure.

Abstract: A resin composition containing a nanocellulose and a polymer of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, wherein the nanocellulose contains an oxide of a cellulose raw material by a hypochlorous acid or a salt thereof, is substantially free of a N-oxyl compound, and satisfies following (I) and/or (II): (I) zeta potential is ?30 mV or less; and (II) light transmittance in a mixed solution in which the nanocellulose and water are mixed and which has a solid content concentration of 0.1 mass % is 95% or more.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an artificially synthesized peptide fragment that can efficiently introduce a foreign substance of interest from outside a eukaryotic cell into at least the cytoplasm of the cell. The present disclosure also provides a method for using the peptide fragment. The herein disclosed peptide fragment is a peptide fragment for introducing a foreign substance of interest from outside a eukaryotic cell into at least the cytoplasm of the cell, and is provided with a repeat sequence in which the VVRSLVK amino acid sequence (SEQ ID NO: 1) is repeated at least two or more times. By using a construct that has the peptide fragment and the foreign substance of interest bonded to the N-terminal side and/or C-terminal side of the peptide fragment, the foreign substance of interest can be efficiently introduced from outside a eukaryotic cell into at least the cytoplasm of the cell.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a coated material by using a composition that can be spray-coated, and that does not run downward after coating (i.e., rheology controllable). The method for producing a coated material includes step (1) of applying an electron beam-curable composition containing an ethylenically unsaturated group-containing compound to a substrate to form a coating film that has a surface viscosity of 1 Pa·s to 300 Pa·s as measured based on an electric-field pickup method, step (2) of drying the coating film obtained in step (1) to form a dry coating film when the electron beam-curable composition contains a volatile component, and step (3) of irradiating the substrate that has the coating film obtained in step (1) or the dry coating film obtained in step (2) with electron beams in an inert gas atmosphere to form a cured coating film.

Abstract: The synthetic peptide disclosed herein is a synthetic peptide which is artificially synthesized for suppressing binding of CTLA4 to at least one of B7 proteins B7-1 and B7-2. The synthetic peptide includes a CTLA4-B7 protein binding inhibitory peptide sequence. The CTLA4-B7 protein binding inhibitory peptide sequence is any one of amino acid sequences shown in the following (1) to (3): (1) a TIM3-SP-related sequence; (2) an LAGS-SP-related sequence; and (3) a CTLA4-SP-related sequence. Here, the total number of amino acid residues in the above-described synthetic peptide is 100 or less.

Abstract: A binder for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode that includes a crosslinked polymer having a carboxyl group or a salt thereof, wherein the crosslinked polymer includes 50% by mass or more and 100% by mass or less structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer relative to all structural units, wherein a total amount of the ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and a salt thereof in terms of a non-neutralized form which is converted from the ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and a salt thereof relative to a total amount of the crosslinked polymer and a salt thereof is 5.0% by mass or less.

Abstract: The synthetic peptide disclosed here includes (1) an amino acid sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NOS:1 to 10, or a modified amino sequence formed by deletion, substitution or addition of 1, 2 or 3 amino acid residues in any of these amino acid sequences, together with (2) an amino acid sequence (CPP sequence) that functions as a cell penetrating peptide (CPP), and consists of a total of not more than 100 amino acid residues.